Cylinder



INVENTOR (No Model.)

H. L. MOULTON GARDING OYLINDER.

N0. 273,878. Patented Mar. 13, 1883.

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TATES PATENT OFFICEQ HAMILTON L. MOULTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR TO THE JAMES SMITH YVOOLEN MACHINERY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CARDlNG-CY'LINDER.

SPECIFIZATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,878, dated March13, 1883.

\' Application filed November 9, 1882. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: to fit snugly to the interior of the saidcylin- Be it known that I, HAMILTON L. MOULTON, der and to the shaft,the edges of the disks bea citizen of theUnited States, and a residenting preferably soldered to the interior of the of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, have invented cylinder at m. The disks, having peripheriesanlmprovementin Garding-Oylinders,ofwhich concentric with the shaft,tend to maintain the 40 the following is a specification. cylinder intrue condition and prevent all tend My invention consists of a cardcylinder or ency to sag; but in order that the disks may rollerconstructed in the peculiar manner fully perform these duties properlyit is essential described hereinafter, with the View of mainthat theyshould be retained in their proper pcto taining it in a cylindricallytrue and steady sitions on the shaft, and for this purpose I in- 5condition. terpose between each head and the nearest disk In theaccompanying drawings, Figure l is a tube, h, of thin metal, and asimilar tube bea longitudinal section of my improved card tween eachpair of disks. Openings are made cylinder or roller; Fig. 2, atransverse section through the disks for the purpose of reducing of thesame; Fig. 3, a. perspective View of the the weight of the same, andeach disk, as well 0 roller, showing some of the parts detached; as eachhead, is notched to receive the longi- Fig. 4, a transverse section ofthe roller with tudinal joint a on the cylinder. the card-clothingthereon, and Fig. 5 a View A hnbJ, may he made on each head, as wellillustrating a modification of one feature of my as on both sides ofeach disk, for receiving the 2o invention. tubes h, as shown in Fig. 5.

A is the shaft or spindle of the cylinder or I claim as my inventionroller; B, the usual cylinder, of tinned plate, A card cylinder orroller in which a shaft, the longitudinal joint to of this cylinder pro-A, and its two heads,D D, are combined with jecting inwardly, so thatthe exterior may be the cylinder B, disks G, titted to the cylinder 25free from all protuberances. and tothe shaft, and tubes h for retainingthe D and Dare the two heads of the roller, one said disks in place onthe shaft, all suhstanhead being fitted into and secured to one endtially as set forth. of the cylinder and the other head to the other Intestimony whereof I have signed my name end of the cylinder. to thisspecification in the presence of two sub- 0 The above-described parts,together with the scribing witnesses.

card-clothing wound spirally round the cylin- Y der and connectedthereto, are common to oth- HAMILTON MOULTOB er card-rollers. Witnesses:

Within the cylinder are a series of disks, G-- HARRY DRURY,

5 four in the present instance-which are made HENRY HOWsON, Jr.

